#7 – Whitney Houston / Various artists – The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album holds the record as the best-selling soundtrack of all time, having sold over 40 million records worldwide. The soundtrack held the number one place on the Billboard 200 chart (in the Nielsen SoundScan era) for 20 non-consecutive weeks, which was the record for most weeks on the number one spot on the chart until Adele’s 21 managed to stay 24 non-consecutive weeks on top of the chart. The Bodyguard soundtrack was the first album in history to be verified by Nielsen SoundScan to have sold more than one million records within a week.